Bhagavad Gita 10.6
महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा | मद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ||
maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavas tathā | mad-bhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ ||
Translation
The seven great seers of old and the four Manus, sharing in my being, were born from my mind. From them came these creatures in the world.
Reflection
What is the image that helps you hold mystery without resolving it?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Ten
Now the genealogy of the visible order. The seven great seers of old and the four Manus were born from Krishna's mind, sharing in His own being, and from them came the creatures who fill the world. Manasa jata, mind-born, places these beings at the source of the lineages without giving them an origin separate from Krishna. The verse links the cosmic claim of the previous chapter to the immediate world the listener inhabits. The line of ancestors, the families and clans Arjuna belongs to, do not run back to nothing. They run back through these figures to Krishna's own mind. The teaching is preparing the listener to recognize the source not as an abstract first cause but as a present one, traceable through the order of the world he already lives inside.